Category Archives: Change

Everything seems to go down at the moment. It has been like that for a longer time, but now it gains on severity.

Financial crisis. Health crisis. Environmental crisis. Humanitarian crisis. Political crisis. Education crisis.

Everything is falling apart. Everything is changing. Not just in one country. In most countries on this earth.

But you know what? That’s not a problem. You heard right. Change is not a problem.

What is a problem is when we hold on to the old forms. When we refuse to go with the change but decide to go against the change. When we try to hold everything together.

Look at the schools: In Germany, schools have produced one reform after the other, desperately trying to somehow fix the problems we more and more encounter (bored children, increased violence, integration of immigrants, dropouts, ADHD…). They try to fix it by trying to force the children to somehow learn more, concentrate more, deal with even more pressure (and, on the other hand, to integrate those that just won’t obey). They hold on to the believe that the current form of education is the only form that works (which doesn’t). And they are holding on to the belief that children don’t like to learn (which is not true. They just don’t like to learn what we tell them they have to learn now).

Look at the politicians: They somehow try to fix the problems by exercising more and more control and blaming each other for the things that don’t work (and those are many…). They are holding on to the belief that the old forms are the best and they somehow have to make them work. Instead of trying to find new ways.

Those were just two general examples. Look at your own life. What is not working? What are you trying to hold on to? What would happen if you’d just let go for a moment? 

Yes, it might mean chaos for some time. But out of that chaos, your new life, your new self is born.

You will find new ways. But you have to let go of the old ones, first!

Have you ever made the experience, that you dared to let go of your old life (or part of it) and start over new? Write a comment below!

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